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Professional development and exchange

Government Records Service (GRS) workforce comprises officers from the Archivist, Curator, Executive Officer and Analyst/Programmer grades that support archives and records management related work in the Government. To meet the challenge in the paradigm shift, GRS endeavours to create a diverse and skilled workforce.

We recognise the value and importance of providing ongoing professional development training to our staff and establishing closer professional network and partnership with our local, Mainland and overseas counterparts.

The professional and development training programme offers the opportunity for GRS officers to acquire skills and competencies through a variety of ways, such as attending academic programmes, task and skilled oriented courses organised by professional institutions, GRS's in house training programmes and career development training programmes.

To foster a closer partnership with other archives, GRS has exchanged professional knowledge and experience on archives and records management with Mainland, overseas and local archives over the years through attending conferences and duty visits. We have also actively participated in Mainland, overseas and local professional organisations-

• International Council on Archives (ICA)
• East Asian Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (EASTICA)
• The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
• The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)

GRS Director led a delegation of four Archivist grade officers and a Curator to visit the Guangzhou National Archives on 11 June 2019. We have professional exchange on archives and records management, preservation of electronic records, access and promotion of archives.

A delegation of two Archivist grade officers and two Curator grade officers attended the 6th Annual Conference of International Council on Archives in Adelaide, Australia, from 21 to 25 October 2019. The theme of the Conference was "Designing the Archive".

Among all, GRS is the Executive Member of the EASTICA and actively participated in its General Conferences and seminars in recent years. Below are the territory reports from the GRS for the General Conference and Seminar of EASTICA.

• Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the 16th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar on 28 November–1 December 2023
• Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the 15th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar held on 22 – 23 November 2021
• Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the 14th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar held on 25-27 November 2019
• Hong Kong Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the International Conference on Safeguarding and Increasing Access to the Documentary Heritage of the Silk Routes of EASTICA held on 6-8 November 2018
• Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the 13th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar held on 6-9 November 2017
• Territory Report from the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China for the 12th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar held on 13-16 October 2015

GRS Director led a delegation of three Archivist grade officers to attend the 14th General Conference of EASTICA and Seminar in Tokyo, Japan, from 25 to 27 November 2019. The theme of the Conference was "Archives Today and Tomorrow: Prospering as a Diversity of Records Dramatically Increase". GRS presented an HKSAR Government territory report that highlighted our response and roadmap to the challenges of technological change. GRS was also approved as a new Executive Board Member of EASTICA at the General Conference.